September 6, 2008

We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so somber, and a rain so penetrating, that further outdoor exercise was now out of the question. That is the […]

Freedom, having been reduced to the right to do and say whatever you want – with the rapid and empty qualifier “as long as you don’t hurt anybody else” – has gone the same way everything else goes when its nature is changed. It is somewhere between imperiled and nonexistent. If we reduce freedom to